Antitelescoping railway-train guard.



No.`702,2l|. Patented lune I0, |902( w. e. HEYBunN. ANTITELESCPING RAILWAY TRAIN GUARD.

(Application med Jan. 22, 1902.) (No Model.)

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tication, reference being had'th'erein to the4 UNITED STATES WELDON I'IEYBURN,

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oEiwALLA'cE, IDAHO.

ANTITELESCOPING RAlLW-AYTRAIN'GUARD.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters `lfatent 702,211, dated J' une 10, 1902.

l Application filed January 22,1902. Serial No. 90,778. (No model.)

Ton/,ZZ whom, t may concern! a citizen of the United States, residing at Wallace, in the county of Shoshone and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful l Improvements in Antitelescoping,Railway-y Train Guards, of which the followingis a speciaccompanying drawings.

This invention has for its object to'provide means for reducing or avoiding the dangers to life and limb by railwaytravel and resulting in the telescoping of trains by reason of head-onorrear-endlcollisions. Insome terrible railway accidents which have occurred in the past locomotive-engines have been known to rise up and practically leap over onto the tops 'of passenger-cars, crushing them down andby the continued running of the engines grinding up the cars and passengers. Y

The dangers of railway travel are lessened in accordance with my presentinvention` by providing each of the locomotive-engines with a strongly-built,pointed,and pivotally-mounted or swinging pilot having beveled vertical faces, said pilot being normally held with its point central to the railway or in the line of the longitudinal center of the locomotive by any suitable devices, and means under the control of the engineer being provided whereby` the pilot canin the event of an impending collision be swung aside in eitherdirection, so that in striking a colliding object, whether such objectv be anapproaching locomotive or the rear car ofla train ahead,'one orthe other` or both of the collidingmobjects will be derailed or forced aside in such a'manner that telescoping will be avoided. By employing a pivoted beveled-facedpilot under the control of the engineer, so that it may be swung aside in either direction, the engineer may se-` lect the side to whichhis locomotive and` train will be `thrown Ain the event of a collision, which may often beadvantageous; For cooperation with my pivoted antitelescoping locomotive-pilots the trains will preferably be provided with Apointed rear-end guards having vertical beveled faces, such rearend guards being preferably of strong steel construction and formed as rigid parts of the `swinging the pilot aside.

causing derailment or side shunting.

cars cari-yin g them, so thatin case of collision Y the tendency to derailment and side sh unting through the action ofthe beveled-faced pilot "will beaugmented. y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis la perspective view showing a portion of a locomotive y provided with my pivot-ed -pilot guard. Fig. 2 is a plan vew'conventionally illustrative of the pivoted-pilot invention. Fig. 3is a detail View of a mechanism for y Fig. 4 is a conventionalplan view illustrativeof the operation of Athe invention in connection with a rearend-guard car.

Referring to the drawings, 12'donotes a l0- comotive-engine provided with a heavy and strongly-braced pivoted pilot 13, preferably of steel. As herein shown, the pilot 13 may be pivotally supported on a strong bracket or brackets 14 at the front of the locomotive. The said pilot 13 is made pointed, with two vertical beveled faces, and the pivoted pilot will preferably be of as great a height as can be utilized and not interfere with the headlight of the locomotive.

The pilot 13 will normally be maintained in a central position by any suitable devices with its point midway between the rails of the track. As herein shown, strong coilsprings 15 are provided to hold the pilot norm'ally in place, and some suitable means under the control of the engineerare provided, whereby in the event of an impending collision the pivoted pilot can be quickly swung to one side or the other for the purpose1 of he means for operating the pilot in the :manner just referred to, which I have herein illustrated, comprise a cylinder 16, within which is a piston 17, connected to an arm or bracket 18 at the rear of the pilot. The piston 17 may, if desired, be operated by steam from theengine, but will preferably be operated from the compressed-air system ofthe train, as by supplying compressed air from an aircylinder 19 through a pipe 20, opening at its front end into a valve-box 21, within which is a sliding valve 22, connected by a rod 23 with a hand-lever 24 at the locomotive-cab and conveniently accessible to the engineer. The valve-box 21 is in communication with IOO the opposite ends of the cylinder 16 through the pipes 25 and 26, so that by sliding the valve 22 in one direction or the other the piston 17 may be forced in either direction for the purpose of swinging the pilot to one side or the other to cause derailrnent .at either side of the railway as the engineer may elect.

For cooperation with my swinging locomotive pilot rear -guard cars, as 27, yhaving pointed rear-end guards, as 28, strongly built and preferably of steel, will preferably be' provided. The vertical beveled faces of these rear-end guards will preferably be .practically v of the heights of the cars. With the guardcars having pointed rear -end guards the swinging ypilots need not be moved so 'far to oneside or the other to reliably'effec't the Aside shunting as would otherwise be necessary, as will be understood.

The invention is not `tofbe understood as being limited `=to the details of construction herein vshown and described, as these may be varied widely within the limits of mechanical Yskill without departing from the essence of the invention.

Having thus describedmy invention, l claim and desire -to secu-re byLetters lPat` entl. A locomotive-engine provided with 'an `antitelescoping, heavy and strongly-con-` structed, pivoted, pointed pilot, vwith Vextended beveled vertical faces.

2. Aloc'omotve-engine provided with an' antitelescoping, heavy and 4strongly-constructed, 1pi voted,po`in1ted pilot, with beveled vertical faces, combined with means for normally holding the said pilot in a central position, acylinder, a piston therein connected with said ,pi-lot, and means, under the control of the engineer, for admitting a fluid under pressure to said cylinder, for the purpose of swinging sai'dpil'ot to one side or .the other.

4. A-loc'omotive-engine lprovided with an antitelescoping', heavy and 'strongly-con- Vvstruc'ted, jpivoted, ,poi'nted'pilot, with' beveled vertical faces, combined with'means Lfor normally holding :the said ,pilot 'in a 4central :position, means, under the control o'f the engineer, for swinging said 'pilot to either side, when desired, and a rear car provided with `a strongly-constructed, ,pointed rear guard, for lcooperation with said vpivotedpilot.

In 'testimony whereof l 'afjx my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

VELDON 1B. HEYBURN.

Witnesses i Louis L. OD-ELL, O'rro HUELL-EMANN. 

